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Article: Food safety: When politics enters the picture.
- Article from:
- Grocery Headquarters
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Food safety throughout the supply chain remains a critical issue for the industry. What's being done to improve the system, and will changes be science-based or driven by politics?
Consumers don't want to play Russian roulette in the supermarket. They expect the products on the shelves and in the cases to have met rigorous safety standards and that unsafe products have been screened out.
But whose job is it to see that this happens? Most people would say it's Uncle Sam's. People may disagree about the legitimate role of government regulation in many aspects of life, but food safety isn't one of them. The United States is credited with having one of the ...